Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Beautiful. Sets and costumes are perfection. Acting is wonderful. Everything is there except in the wrong place. Film begins 2/3 into the story and then does flash backs and flash forwards with out rhyme or reason. Story line is impossible to follow. Meg is fighting with her husband before she meets him and Beth comes back into the story line after she dies several times. Who can tell where Jo is ; in New York or Concord. There was no regard for the story line as created by Miss Alcott. The flash backs are not explained and come and go with out notice. There is no way to know what point you are at in the story or weather it is a flash back or flash forward. It is all there and beautifully done but scrambled into a confusing mess. I love Little Women and have read the book dozens of times and seen every movie version many times and loved them all. But not this one. It appears as if the film editor chopped up the film threw it on the floor and picked up the pieces at random and pasted them together how every they landed in no reasonable order. The actors and Miss Alcott deserved better. I went with a group of friends. Several had read the book as a child and several had never read the book or seen a movie of it. They all said it was confusing , long and boring and the plot made no sense. As for me I spent my time trying to figure out where we were in the story instead of enjoying one of the greatest literary story on the screen. If it had been told in order as written by Alcott this would be the best film version to date. Instead it is a boring crazy quilt of beautiful pictures. So very disappointed.